Job o' the Day: Staff Attorney at the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project in DC!
The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP) is a small non-profit corporation that works to prevent and correct the conviction of innocent people in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. 
MAIP has an immediate opening for a full-time Staff Attorney with a demonstrated passion for criminal justice issues and investigation and/or litigation experience. Because MAIP is such a small organization, this position will include a limited amount of non-legal work, including website maintenance and some development responsibilities (shared with others on the staff).
The Staff Attorney’s duties will include: litigating MAIP cases, usually with co-counsel; supervising MAIP’s Staff Investigator, helping him prioritize cases and determine appropriate strategy in those cases; reading case files and/or interviewing potential clients to determine whether to investigate or litigate a given case; participating in meetings with our Screening Committee and Screening Director; filing Freedom of Information Act requests with our jurisdictions and appealing decisions in those requests as necessary; when exonerations do occur, helping to coordinate post-exoneration services; updating the website and Facebook page; some development activities, which will include helping to write our annual newsletter, helping to put together our annual fundraising event, and helping to coordinate our Young Professionals Committee; other MAIP duties, as appropriate.
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